Ann, from Feminist Law Professors, gives us a link to an article on whiteness and teaching in schools:
This Article argues that whiteness operates as the normative foundation of most discussions of race. Legal educators often overlook the role of whiteness in the law school setting and in law more generally. Identifying and understanding whiteness should be an essential component of legal education. This Article considers reasons why legal education rarely addresses this normative role played by whiteness.
Interesting start to the article. The article leads off with a comment on the racial inequality built into the original wording of the Constitution:
First off, it’s not just U.S. culture that recognizes that the U.S. Constitution helped birth the spread of democracy in the world. Second, it did not create a racialized hierarchy. Such a thing already existed and was deeply entrenched. What it did do was recognize it and create something that did not previously exist; a method for changing it. Had there been no compromise and no establishment of the Constitution, there would likely have been two or more countries where the U.S. is now, and at least one of them would likely have had slavery for quite a few years after 1865. To say that the Constitution created something that had in fact existed for 100+ years before it was written shows a misunderstanding of either the Constitution and American culture or the English language.